disembogue

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The white men who reached the Eskimo land from the south were discoverers following to the sea the three great rivers that disembogue into the Polar Sea: the Mackenzie, Coppermine, Back or Great Fish.

From The New North by Cameron, Agnes Deans

The rivers of emancipated men neither disembogue into the ocean of spirit nor evaporate into the abyss of nonentity, but are blended with infinitude as an ontological integer.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

The river Paraná forms a great artery between Brazil and Paraguay; upon each side of it a network of rivers disembogue.

From A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by Cunninghame Graham, R. B. (Robert Bontine)

There is perhaps no better example of the Dutch power over water than the contrast between the present narrow canal through which the river must disembogue and the unprofitable marsh which once spread here.

From A Wanderer in Holland by Marshall, Herbert, R. W .S.

At the top of the Bay of Islands, two rivers disembogue, the Wye Catte and the Kawakawa: they are both small but beautiful streams.

From A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827 by Earle, Augustus